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BACK FROM THE BRINK
STACEY Burton will have a lot to celebrate at her 17th birthday party on Saturday. Just three weeks ago she was lying in a coma, having suffered massive head injuries following a road accident. Her parents kept a vigil by her bed for 14 days, praying
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I wish I'd been there to hold his hand...
A WOMAN has spoken of her regret that she was not there to hold her grandson's hand as he lay dying from a rare bacteria linked to the hospital superbug MRSA. Edwina Fooks was speaking out on Tuesday as news of the community-based MRSA-linked toxin hit
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Police in probe into 999 call response
AN investigation into the death of a schoolteacher at her mother's Bournemouth home earlier this month is to be reviewed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. The body of 24-year-old Charlotte Lewis, who lived in Exeter, was found in a cottage
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BACK FROM THE BRINK
STACEY Burton will have a lot to celebrate at her 17th birthday party on Saturday. Just three weeks ago she was lying in a coma, having suffered massive head injuries following a road accident. Her parents kept a vigil by her bed for 14 days, praying
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I wish I'd been there to hold his hand...
A WOMAN has spoken of her regret that she was not there to hold her grandson's hand as he lay dying from a rare bacteria linked to the hospital superbug MRSA. Edwina Fooks was speaking out on Tuesday as news of the community-based MRSA-linked toxin hit
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Make room!
DORSET is preparing for the big squeeze. In the next 20 years, the south east of the county has to accommodate tens of thousands of homes. The projections are for at least 42,000 new homes in Bournemouth, Poole, East Dorset, Purbeck and Christchurch.
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Residents 'dumped on' by waste plant
DOZENS of angry protesters made calls for Winfrith to be dropped as a possible location for Dorset's first high-tech waste treatment plant. May 24 marked the first day of a public inquiry into the Dorset Waste Plan which includes proposals to build a
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Emo's rich pickings at Wentworth
GARY Emerson has admitted 'it's great to be back' at Wentworth as he prepares for his 11th PGA championship on Thursday. The 41-year-old Broadstone professional booked his place after regaining his full playing privileges by winning the BMW Russian Open
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FORMER SOCIETY SET TO BE REMUTUALISED
FORMER building society Bristol & West is to be remutualised after a £150 million takeover by Britannia BS. Bristol & West's 850,000 customers will gain ownership rights but it will mean the closure of a branch in Bournemouth. Bristol & West
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Speed humps planned to curb rat run drivers
LONG-awaited speed humps are set to be installed in a busy East Dorset road in a bid to deter motorists from using it as a rat run. County highways chiefs are proposing to erect 23 humps along a mile-and-a-quarter stretch of Golf Links Road in Ferndown
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Speed humps planned to curb rat run drivers
LONG-awaited speed humps are set to be installed in a busy East Dorset road in a bid to deter motorists from using it as a rat run. County highways chiefs are proposing to erect 23 humps along a mile-and-a-quarter stretch of Golf Links Road in Ferndown
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Devastated mum pays tribute to missing son
A MOTHER today paid tribute to her 'cheeky chappie' son who is presumed dead after falling overboard from a fishing boat. Devastated Julie Menzies, 40, said her fisherman son Samuel Shaw McCulloch was everything to her. Mr McCulloch, 22, who has a two-year-old
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SAFETY PLEA: ROAD LINES MUST GO
AN environmental group wants to get rid of white lines on roads in parts of Dorset. The Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Partnership claimed the lines encouraged speeding and, along with other road signs, were 'insensitive to the landscape'.
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Lifeboat veteran is honoured by RNLI
A VETERAN lifeboat volunteer has received a top honour from the RNLI. Bill Ludlow, 71, was made an Honorary Life Governor at an awards ceremony held at the Barbican in London. He received the award - the highest available to a non-crew lifeboat volunteer
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Villagers rally round for Lindsey
A DORSET village has rallied round to help newcomers who have a severely disabled child. And it is hoped that help will be forthcoming to clear the garden in time for the delivery of an enormous climbing frame for her on June 1. The Webb family has had
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LOAN LIGHT FOR SEAN?
SEAN O'Driscoll says it would be a "major boost" to Cherries if proposals to alter the loan system were reconsidered. Plans for the transfer window to apply to the Football League next season would mean that clubs could only bolster their squads during
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Bus attack as yobs run riot around area
A GANG of up to 30 yobs attacked a bus and a series of cars as they ran riot on Bournemouth streets, it has emerged. The youngsters, thought to have been drunken under-16s, lobbed stones at vehicles and verbally abused locals who challenged them during
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A simple check-up can beat glaucoma
DORSET residents have been urged to make sure they have regular eye tests after a report said more than 200,000 Britons a year lose their sight through glaucoma. Steve Taylor, optometric adviser to the county's primary care trusts, spoke out as the Royal
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Police in probe into 999 call response
AN investigation into the death of a schoolteacher at her mother's Bournemouth home earlier this month is to be reviewed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. The body of 24-year-old Charlotte Lewis, who lived in Exeter, was found in a cottage
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Imagine - there's no Beatles!
THE Beatles and The Rolling Stones changed the history of British pop but they have been left out in the cold in a poll of the all-time great hits of the past five decades. Between them they may have sold tens of millions of records - The Beatles alone
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LOAN LIGHT FOR SEAN?
SEAN O'Driscoll says it would be a "major boost" to Cherries if proposals to alter the loan system were reconsidered. Plans for the transfer window to apply to the Football League next season would mean that clubs could only bolster their squads during
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Thommo targets a Wentworth weekend
LEE Thompson is keen to make it third time lucky in the BMW Championship at Wentworth on May 26. The Dudsbury pro will be making his third attempt to make the halfway cut in the European Tour flagship event after two previous near misses. Thompson, a
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Emo's rich pickings at Wentworth
GARY Emerson has admitted 'it's great to be back' at Wentworth as he prepares for his 11th PGA championship on May 26. The 41-year-old Broadstone professional booked his place after regaining his full playing privileges by winning the BMW Russian Open
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Drive off in a Beetle - for just £1
FOR just £1 you can drive away a brand-new Volkswagen Beetle thanks to the Jigsaw Appeal's latest moneymaking scheme. The charity organisation is aiming to raise £2.5 million to buy life-saving scanners for the Royal Bournemouth Hospital. Between June
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Susie looks to Lithuania
SUPER Susie Hignett has set her sights on representing Great Britain in Lithuania over 3,000 metres in this summer's European Under-20 Junior Championships. The talented Bournemouth Athletic Club track star just dipped in under the qualifying time of
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Greenslade storms to national victory
DORSET'S Martin Greenslade preserved his five-year unbeaten run in the over-40s Home Countries Championship as England stormed to victory again. Greenslade, playing at three, quickly disposed of challengers from Wales and Ireland without dropping a game
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Racine ahead with Wendy
A GENERATION has come of age and set its own rules since Transvision Vamp last troubled our ears. Their spritely power pop was bright enough to secure a couple of hits (Baby I Don't Care, I Want You Love), while their peroxide blonde singer Wendy James
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Margaret hits second hole in one at 85
EIGHTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD golfer Margaret Boxwell is celebrating after hitting her second hole-in-one. Mrs Boxwell made the shot at Bridport's seventh hole, a par three 124-yard hole on to a green 90 feet below the cliff top. She made her first hole-in-one
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'Fantastic' forum honours its professor
THE MAN praised for his role as chairman of the group responsible for winning World Heritage Site status for Dorset's coast has stepped down from the post. Professor Denys Brunsden, 68, retired from the Dorset Coast Forum at the Weymouth and Portland
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Harsh critic heaps praise on eaterie
SCATHING food critic A A Gill has given a rare thumbs-up to a Burton Bradstock restaurant. Gill, known for his waspish attacks on London eateries, gave the Hive Beach Caf four out of five stars in a Sunday Times magazine review. Now the Beach Road business
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Owners 'cocker' hoop as Millie comes home
A BRANSGORE couple have been reunited with their cocker spaniel Millie after the dog's picture appeared in the Daily Echo. Millie was allegedly stolen from her kennel in Claire and Chris Jeffery's rural home off Lyndhurst Road on Wednesday, May 11. She
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Second term for popular Mayor
IT took 700 years for the ancient borough of Christchurch to appoint its first lady mayor in 1928. And on Tuesday Cllr Josephine Spencer, in her second term as Mayor since the turn of the millennium, became the fourth female to fill the post in the first
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Do you care where they were before?
IF you've been indoors at lunchtimes this week, you might have seen a TV programme which could just represent a new low in broadcasting. It's called Have I Been Here Before?, and the idea is that a bunch of C-list celebrities undergo regression therapy
